Friday, January 05, 2007

rock art in india, also bhimbetka

jan 5, 2007

for your information.

the caves in lascaux, france are more famous but bhimbetka blows them away, as well as indirectly invalidating the aryan invasion bullshit, in combination with the bradshaw foundation's hypothesis about a reverse invasion of europe from india.

CHENNAI: After Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh is poised to claim yet another world record in rock art — this time, for the longest chain of rock art.

The 12-km-long site, with most of its petroglyphs or pre-historic rockcarvings intact, has been discovered in Mandsaur district of Malwa region, which is also home to Bhimbetka, the UNESCO world heritage site, 45 km southof Bhopal.

The Rock Arts Society of India (RASI), which knew about the existence of thesite for sometime, has now gone official saying the site in the Vindhyan tableland, a plateau lying north of the central part of the Vindhya range,is indeed the "longest chain of rock arts in the world".

"Nowhere in the world has anybody come across such an extensive chain of rock arts with little interruption. What's exciting is most petroglyphs areintact," internationally acclaimed paleontologist and former RASI secretaryG L Badam told TOI.

The site is situated inside dense forests, 35 km from Bhanpura town, about 350 km from Bhopal. Earliest carvings in the chain are mostly of animalslike rhino, nilgai , bear, panther, elephant, monkey, turtle and crocodile.But there are also pictures of cow, bull, buffalo, pig and horse.

Experts have called the discovery of the Bhanpura rock arts as "an importantmilestone in the history of anthropology". "The presence of a variety ofrituals, processions and fighting scenes goes to prove the continuity of the art and early man's culmination into community living," said Badam.

RASI officials have already pitched for National Park status to the Vindhyanrock-shelters.